Every time Joe Budden talks about protecting hip hop or culture I ask myself when did "hip hop protection" even work?

Nas wanted to protect hip hop from Ring Tone Rap

Jay wanted to protect hip hop from Auto Tune

Kanye wanted to protect hip hop from light skinned niggas

gatekeeper old man mentality - things change - grow up

lil xan was successfully cancelled

ringtone rap era was fire

Was he? The documentary made it seem like his label just used and abused him and he stopped making music after been spoon fed pills and led into being broke af

To answer op this s*** has never worked with any genre and it's just old people being idealistic and b****y

Old rock stars tried it with Radiohead even

They tried burying Radiohead? Nutso

It was the Cheetos took that boi out

Yeah there's some old rock stars who were gatekeeping rock cause of ok computer or kid a being too weird

Thats what X**** does to a mf

Vanilla ice mc hammer Soulja boy Trinidad james

It never needed it until around the mid 2000’s when too many Niggas started making post lil Jon type beat music and everything else followed lol

Weakass stomach lining

“Xans wont betray you”headass

Offset vs the upside down crosses

Wild

music moves forward. no one can stop it from doing that.

Dr Dre stopped Marjorie Green from using his song without permission

Tryna find a way to answer this using the Kanye/50 Cent album sales war.

Donald Trump Threatened Trade War Against Sweden to Release A$AP Rocky

Never even thought about it, I dont that s*** has worked at all lol. In matter of fact it probably just intensifies whatever movement they try to gatekeep

Rock fans significantly more pretentious and gatekeep-y than rap fans in my experience

"radiohead was playboi carti at one time" - some dude at amoeba, 2018-ish.

i dont agree with joe budden but i DO know we shouldve never let Nettspend happen

this is my 9/11

the music industry watered down their east vs west beef formula and applied it to a new york and chicago artist, but left it in the billboard streets instead